Operating System and Hardware Support for 64 Bit and VMWare

I was curious if the server components for Pharos Uniprint 8.0 and/or 8.1 are supported on Windows Server 2008 R2 (64-bit).

The issue is with VMWare and certain Guest OS and VM image combinations.

See: http://www.vmware.com/pdf/GuestOS_guide.pdf  

Pharos 64-bit VM support is subject to that supported by VMware. Some versions of VMware do not support specific combinations of guest operating systems and host processors.

For example, with older versions of VMware, running a 64-bit guest OS on an AMD Opteron processor may work, while running the same guest OS on a first generation 32-bit Intel Core Duo would result in random crashes and other unpredictable behavior. 

Pharos installed on VMware in unsupported configurations will have various forms of instability.

Customers will need to establish that their specific combination of host OS, host hardware, guest OS and VMware configuration is fully supported by VMware before they attempt to install Uniprint.

Here's a quick breakdown.

32-bit CPU + 32-bit Host OS

32-bit Guest OS - Supported
64-bit Guest OS - Unsupported

32-bit CPU + 64-bit Host OS

32-bit Guest OS - Unsupported
64-bit Guest OS - Unsupported

64-bit CPU + 32-bit Host OS

32-bit Guest OS - Supported
64-bit Guest OS - Supported

64-bit CPU + 64-bit Host OS

32-bit Guest OS - Supported      
64-bit Guest OS - Supported